Both Paris and Madrid are working with Chinese authorities to repatriate French and Spanish citizens who are currently in Wuhan. France will fly its citizens back home from Wuhan “in the middle of next week," the country's Health Minister, Agnès Buzyn, said Sunday.
"All our citizens in Wuhan, about 800, are connected to the consulate,” the French Health Ministry told CNN Monday.
"The Prime Minister has decided to respond to the French people of Wuhan and their request to return. Our consulate team is in contact with the nationals. All those who wish to return will be able to do so,” Buzyn added.
“We are arranging a direct flight from Wuhan," she said.
Buzyn said those who return to France will be monitored in one place for 14 days to avoid any spread of the virus.
A spokesman for the Spanish Foreign Ministry also told CNN that "the ministry is working with other European Countries affected to organize a joint repatriation flight."
In a statement, the ministry said: “The Minister of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation has spoken with the Consul General of Spain in Beijing to obtain information of the situation of Spaniards in Wuhan."
There are about 20 Spanish people in Wuhan, the ministry said.
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